With numbers continuing to rise, the world is facing an epidemic rebound from the coronavirus. This Monday, September 14, the director of the European branch of the World Health Organization (WHO) declared ” It will get harder. […] In October, in November, we will see a higher mortality “. Can we speak of a second wave? Let’s take stock of the situation.
A second wave in Austria
Feared around the world, the second wave became reality in Austria, one of the first countries where the term was officially used. Indeed, while the city of Vienna recorded last Saturday, more than half of the 870 new cases of contamination of the country, the Chancellor Sebastian Kurz declared that Austria was ” at the start of the second wave “. According to him, the number of cases should soon exceed a thousand new cases per day. This is why since Monday, masks have become mandatory in all stores and public buildings in addition to supermarkets and transport.
National containment in Israel
After imposing a curfew in more than forty cities across the country, Israel is taking it to the next level with the announcement of a new national lockdown. Which makes it the first country in the world to impose a second general lockdown. It must be said, Israel is the second country in the world to have recorded the most new cases per capita in the past two weeks.
The confinement is planned for a period of three weeks and begins from this Friday, September 18 and will end around October 9. It takes place during the famous festivals of Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot, which shows the authorities’ willingness to avoid gatherings of faithful and families in order to fight against the spread of the virus.
An increase in cases in the Czech Republic
Last Saturday, the Czech Republic recorded a record of infections for the third consecutive day show the Ministry of Health. In an interview given last Sunday on Czech television, epidemiologist Roman Prymula sounded the alarm by saying: ” If the epidemic continues at this explosive rate, we will reach the limits of our hospital capacity at the end of October “.
No more restrictions in UK
According to figures from the British government, the United Kingdom recorded more than 3,500 new cases of coronavirus last Friday. This increase in the number of cases had not been so significant since May. To cope with this epidemiological rebound and avoid re-containment, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new restrictions. Among them, any gathering of more than six people (from different homes) is now banned in England. Birmingham’s local authorities go even further by banning any meeting with friends or family.
